Benjamin T. Nylander is a composer and pianist living in Brooklyn, New York. His work, inspired by themes of existentialism, memory, and spirituality, often embraces a reverence of nature; it is an encapsulation of wonder at the universe. 

Benjamin T. Nylander holds a Master’s in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and a Bachelor’s in Piano Performance from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He has studied composition with Marilyn Shrude, Christopher Dietz, Mikel Kuehn, and Patrick Long as well as piano with Solungga Liu and Naomi Niskala. Nylander has performed at Niigata University in Japan, and as the winner of the 2018 Susquehanna University Concerto Competition, performed Saint-Saëns’ ‘Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor’ (Movement 1) with the SU orchestra in 2019.

Recently, Nylander has spent time in residencies at the Virginia Creative Center for the Arts in Mt. San Angelo, Virginia and at Snow Pond Music Festival in Sidney, Maine, where he conducted the premiere of his large saxophone ensemble piece, Once More to the Ocean. Alchemy, a new album performed in collaboration with saxophonist Joshua Heaney (Duo Aurous), was released in 2022. In 2023, Nylander joined the traveling chamber music group Mini Masterworks as pianist, conductor, and arranger.

While not performing, Nylander can be found working as repetiteur in the opera studios of Ron Raines, Dona Vaughn, Elizabeth Stevens, and Alison Bolshoi. He teaches a large private studio of his own piano, composition, and theory students throughout the greater New York City area and beyond.